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First Amendment Triumph: IRS Recognizes Pastors’ Right to Free Speech

July 12, 2025 Zach Smith via the Daily Signal 3
From the beginning, the Johnson Amendment was designed to stifle politically disfavored speech. After all, that may have been one of the motivating factors behind LBJ adding this statutory language. But what should have been clear all along has now been made explicit: Neither statutory language nor the IRS’ interpretation of it can trump the Constitution. Americans have a First Amendment right to freely exercise their faith and a First Amendment right to freely speak their minds, especially on religious and political issues and how the two arenas intersect.

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EU’s Digital Services Act Threatens to Censor Americans on Social Media

July 10, 2025 Adina Portaru via The Daily Signal 0
The Digital Services Act compels very large online platforms—think Facebook, YouTube, and X—to remove so-called illegal content without delay. The problem? “Illegal” is defined not by clear, fixed principles, but by a moving target: whatever violates the law of any EU member state, now or in the future. That means a speech restriction passed in one small European country could trigger content takedowns across the entire internet—a lowest-common-denominator approach to censorship.

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EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions

July 6, 2025 Ramsha Jahangir via Tech Policy Press. 0
In May, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and four other congressmen sent a letter to EU Commissioner Michael McGrath. They argued that since the DSA requires platforms to systematically censor “disinformation” and most companies won’t create separate moderation systems for Europe and the rest of the world, the DSA could set de facto global censorship standards, restricting Americans’ online speech.

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Barack Obama Lets the Mask Slip Again

June 28, 2025 Robert Spencer via PJ Media 0
So there’s the left’s new plan, which is, predictably, same as the old plan: brand its opponents “hateful” and “polarizing,” and silence them accordingly. The chief flagship organizations of the left’s defamation industry, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL, have been smearing patriots in this way for years. Obama wants to follow up these smears with a federal muzzle.

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Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups tried to influence EU: Report

May 29, 2025 By Clea Caulcutt, Victor Goury-Laffont and Sarah Paillou via Politico 0
A version of the document seen by POLITICO before its official publication says the Islamist group’s supposed ideological allies sought to push Brussels to criminalize blasphemy and promote a “singular” vision of religious freedom that clashes with France’s strict model of a secular state that protects both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. The European Parliament and MEPs were “particularly targeted,” the report said.

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